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                                  <center><h1>TURB</h1></center>
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This is a development snapshot of a gravity dogfight game al'a TurboRaketti for the Amiga.
As I'm just finishing the foundation I would appreciate some testing and advise/suggestions.
I think this is the first pygame featuring parallax scrolling :-).
It also features (optional)network play with multiple clients.
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The Graphics is just for testing as is the map. 

turb.py is the main file.

mapedit.py is a mapeditor used to create maps.

For server/client settings see 'ini/turb.ini' file.

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The performance can vary much depending on hardware, you should really try to get hardware accel working as it makes a big differens.

If it's to slow, experiment with the colour depth and other graphics settings and/or disable parallax layers.

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<h3><u>Game Play</u></h3>
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    <td><b>Player 1</b></td>
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	<td>arrow up</td><td>thrust</td>
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	<td>arrow left, right</td><td>rotate</td>
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	<td>arrow down</td><td>Secondary fire when flying or bring up player menu when landed and go up when in menu.</td>
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	<td>space</td><td>fire or select in player menu.</td>
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<td><b>Player 2</b></td>
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	<td>w</td><td>thrust</td>
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	<td>a,d</td><td>rotate</td>
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	<td>s</td><td>Secondary fire when flying or bring up player menu when landed and go up when in menu.</td>
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	<td>Left Shift</td><td>fire or select in player menu.</td>
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To Bring up player menu in game press down when landed.

Tested on Win 98,2000,XP and Debian Linux (Woddy).

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<h3><u>Howto install things needed to run turb on windows</u></h3>
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    <td><b>Dependencies</b></td><td><b>Download</b></td>
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    <td>python > 2.2</td><td><a href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/">http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/</a></td>
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    <td>pygame > 1.5</td><td><a href="http://www.pygame.org">http://www.pygame.org</a></td>
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    <td>Numeric = 21.0,version 22 wont work!</td><td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&release_id=107635">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&release_id=107635</a></td>
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    <td>Pyui > 0.9</td><td><a href="http://pyui.sourceforge.net/">http://pyui.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
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    <td>Pil</td><td>Use python package manager(see below).</td>
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<b>Installation</b>
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<li>python  - windows installer</li>
<li>pygame  - windows installer</li>
<li>Numeric - windows installer</li>
<li>Pyui    - Unzip Pyui. Copy or move the 'pyui' and 'images' dirs located in the pyui dir to your_python_dir\Lib\site-packages\
<li>Pil     - Start pyppm by typing pyppm at the command prompt or clicking on 'Python Package Manager' in activestate start menu.<br>
             Type 'install pil' in pyppm, then type 'exit' to quit.</li>
<li>Done!
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Contact:
Fredrik C
tomten@algonet.se

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